Twinsie Tuesday: Teal Nails for Ovarian Cancer Awareness

September is National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month and this week the Twinsies are doing Teal Nails in recognition of this cause.

Did you know that 60% of woman diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer are already in Stage 3?
That's pretty scary!
For more information on Ovarian Cancer, check out the National Ovarian Cancer Coalition.

Polishes Used:
-Morgan Taylor - Lost in Paradise
-Morgan Taylor - Gotta Have Hue

For this look, I used two of my teal Morgan Taylor shades and tried a new technique (for me) that I had seen on Instagram. EDIT: Thanks to my lovely readers for finding where I first saw this look; it was from @anya_sobk on IG!
I thought this technique was perfect for the theme as it also sort of has a bit of a "cell" feel to it.

Let's see how the other Twinsies are supporting National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month:

Alaina at The Little Canvas

Amanda at Amandalandish

Amber at Nails Like Lace
Anna at Going to the Showing
Bridget at A Painted Nail

Casey at CaseyLane Loves Polish

Chelsea at Nailed Blog

ChiChi at I'm Just Me...ChiChi

Cordia at Seriously Swatched

Elizabeth at Did My Nails

Erin at Paint Those Piggies

Jessica at Blue Velvet Lacquer

Kelly at Tuxarina

Lakeisha at Refined and Polished

​Lisa at The Polish Playground

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   Marisa at Polish Obsession

Róisín at Cuti-CLUE-les

Stephanie at A Little Polish

Tiffany at Polished To Precision​

Traci at DrinkCitra 

NOPI Roughles - On What Grounds?

I recently met up with some Pittsburgh nail girlies and the lovely Nicole of Doctor Crafty gifted me my very first NOPI Roughles polish, On What Grounds?

I am wearing two coats of On What Grounds? without topcoat. I really liked how this shade had flecks of other colors in it and dried nice and quickly. It is a nice simple seafoam teal color so it's very on trend as well.

I will probably be keeping my eyes peeled to see if I can find the rest of the Roughles Collection (if you're still seeing them out in stores, let me know where!)

Do you own any polishes in the collection?

Twinsie Tuesday: 3D Decor

This week's Twinsie Tuesday theme is 3D Décor. I was really looking forward to this theme because I had really been wanting to try a jewel encrusted accent nail so I took this opportunity to do just that.

I really love this mani! It came out just how I was imagining in my head. I didn't want to take it off, but of course I did it first on a night that I needed to do a couple looks so I had to take it off right away. Sad Panda - but I saved all the jewels in a separate container so I could re-create this look when I had time to wear it. I'm also interested to see how well the jewels stay on during the average workday. The base color that I used for this look was OPI AmazON...AmazOFF and I think works great with the jewels.

I can't wait to see what the other ladies came up with for their 3D Décor looks, and I hope to see some other jewel encrusted accent nails out there!

Alaina at The Little Canvas

Amanda at Amandalandish

Amber at Nails Like Lace

Anna at Going to the Showing

Casey at Casey Lane Loves Polish

Chelsea at Nailed Blog

ChiChi at I'm Just Me...ChiChi

Cordia at Seriously Swatched

Elizabeth at Did My Nails

Erin at Paint Those Piggies

Kelly at Tuxarina

Lakeisha at Refined and Polished

Marisa at Polish Obsession

Róisín at Cuti-CLUE-les

Stephanie at A Little Polish

Tiffany at Polished To Precision

Traci at DrinkCitra

 

 

Morgan Taylor - Swatches & Review

I haven't shared any Morgan Taylor polishes with you for a couple of weeks, so today you get to see six more lovely shades.

All swatches shown with two coats of color and topcoat

Water Baby

Water Baby is a lovely pastel blue shade which had full coverage in two coats. This would be perfect for a base for nail art or a pastel springy look.

Mint Chocolate Chip

Mint Chocolate Chip is definitely a light mint cream polish. It was fully opaque in two coats and had nice application. Mint is still very on trend right now so I could see myself potentially wearing this to work sometime.

Supreme In Green

If you're looking for the perfect light grass green shade, then Supreme In Green is for you. SIG was slightly streaky in one coat but had a nice self leveling formula in two coats.

Lost in Paradise

Lost is Paradise is such a gorgeous color! This picture is lightening it up slightly but it's just barely a little darker than shown. Silly Camera. Great formula as well.

Gotta Have Hue

I love polish names that are plays on words. But this is also a really pretty shade, it is the most sheer of the six shades that I'm sharing today but was still completely opaque in two coats.

West Coast Cool

Who doesn't love a good blue cream polish for summer! This shade was also slightly darker in person, but still super gorgeous in person. If you're a blue person, you're definitely going to need to add this to your collection and it's nothing like the other shades I have and may also fill a "blue gap" for you too.

So what did you think about these shades? Too cool for school? I thought so too :)

You can check out Morgan Taylor at the following locations:

• Website: http://morgantaylorlacquer.com/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MorganTaylorLacquer
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/MTMorganTaylor
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/MorganTaylorLacquer

*Products in this post were provided by the manufacturer for my honest review*

Twinsie Tuesday: Pick a past TT theme you especially loved/hated or had to miss, and redo it

This week's Twinsie Tuesday theme is "pick a past Twinsie Tuesday theme you especially loved/hated or had to miss, and redo it". Phew, that's a mouthful. So for this week I decided to take a look at some of the previous themes that the Twinsie's did before I joined, and decided to re-create a cloud mani!

Polishes Used:
-Orly - White Tips
-China Glaze - For Audrey
-China Glaze - Man Hunt
-Rica - Glossy Glam

I went with a simple cloud mani for this look in a nice cool toned color palette. "Cloud" mani's were one of the this nail art looks that I ever tried when I got into nail art and it's nice to know you can go back to something like this for a simple easy to create look.

Check out what other looks the ladies decided to re-create this week!

Alaina at The Little Canvas

Amanda at Amandalandish

Amber at Nails Like Lace

Anna at Going to the Showing

Anne at Grape Fizz Nails

Casey at CaseyLane Loves Polish

Chelsea at Nailed Blog

ChiChi at I'm Just Me...ChiChi

Elizabeth at Did My Nails

Erin at Paint Those Piggies

Kelly at Tuxarina

Lakeisha at Refined and Polished

Maribeth at Obsessive Cosmetic Hoarders Unite

Marisa at Polish Obsession

Róisín at Cuti-CLUE-les

Stephanie at A Little Polish

Tiffany at Polished To Precision

Traci at DrinkCitra

 

 

Eat Sleep Polish - À La Menthe

TGIF, am I right? I recently won a gorgeous polish from Eat Sleep Polish, À La Menthe and today I will be sharing my pictures!

From the East Sleep Polish Website: À La Menthe started as a custom, and because of its overwhelming love, it has been added to the standard collection! A very beautiful liner holographic polish, that is minty green (not grey). This is sure to catch they eye of bystanders in the sunlight.

So before I get into the pictures, just let me say that Caterina is just so sweet; you can tell that she is very passionate about her business, which is awesome.

This is how the polish arrived:

It came in the most adorable little kitty polish sweater to keep the polish warm!!!

And then there was this:



Photo from my Twitter account

Do you see that house in the background? Yep, she made that house for the polish to live in! Of course I am somewhat blocking the opening but can you see the windows in the back? She probably put so much time into this, how amazing is that?! So anyway I accidentally heavy handed it when I was carrying it and knocked the roof slightly ajar; so now it's carefully placed on top of my Melmer for safe keeping with the polish.

So anyway, onto the actual polish! (it's about time, right?)

I am wearing two coats of À La Menthe with topcoat in the pictures; isn't this a gorgeous shade. Also, I really liked that the polish came with a wide brush, I am so spoiled, but I only want to use wide brushes these days.

You can find Eat Sleep Polish at the following locations:

• Website: http://eatsleeppolish.com/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EatSleepPolish
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/eatsleeppolish
• Instagram: http://instagram.com/eatsleeppolish
• Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/EatSleepPolish

Although I received this polish as a prize, I can say without a doubt, it won't be my last ESP Polish!

Do you own any Eat Sleep Polish shades?

Blue Eyed Girl Lacquer - Monster's Tea at Tiffany's & Un Sueño Mágico

I recently won two pretty Blue Eyed Girl Lacquer polishes in @nailpolishtherapy's Instagram Giveaway. Clariza recently reached 1500 Instagram followers and decided to do something special to thank her followers. I was so excited to win because as soon as I saw the giveaway on Instagram, I knew I needed to add those shades to my collection, and I wasn't going to get the custom, Un Sueño Mágico, without winning!

This is what she had to say in her giveaway post: This giveaway is being sponsored by the lovely Julie of BEGL @blueeyedlawyer and author of Wishes of a Blue-Eyed Girl blog! She made my wish come true by creating the custom aptly named Un Sueño Mágico which is a beautiful glitter topper that will complement her core polish Monster's Tea at Tiffany's.  I threw my ideas her way and I was floored when she sent me swatches as she captured exactly what I wanted! I'm truly amazed and impressed by her talent and creativity and I'd love to share this set with one of you!

Now onto the polishes!!

Monster's Tea at Tiffany's: Tiffany blue polish with a green to pink/red shift.

Un Sueño Mágico: This is the custom topper that Clariza had Julie make for the giveaway! It contains blue, white and pink glitters in all shapes and sizes.

Aren't these polishes gorgeous!!!!?!??! I mean, look at that macro, and even the Tiffany's is amazing on it's own.

Which look to you prefer? Plain or with the glitter topper? Any other undies you want to Un Sueño Mágico over?